Pompilidae Latreille, 1804

Rodriguez, Juanita, Waichert, Cecilia, Von Dohlen, Carol D., Jr., George Poinar & Pitts, James P., 2016, Eocene and not Cretaceous origin of spider wasps: Fossil evidence from amber, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (1), pp. 89-96 : 90

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00073.2014
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11061131
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/61448526-FFA7-5A78-FFC6-FB5F93D2F9AC
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pompilidae Latreille, 1804
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Treatment

Family Pompilidae Latreille, 1804 View in CoL View at ENA

Remarks.—The species treated here were assigned to the family Pompilidae based mainly on wing venation features, which are relatively uniform for the family ( Day 1988). These were placed in the family Pompilidae based on the following combination of characters: presence of ten closed cells in the forewing, the hind wing with the veins C+Sc+ R +Rs fused basally, and the second abscissa of 1A lost. Marginal cell with vein Rs rounded and attached to anterior margin of wing. Vein Rs of cell 1Rs attached to the base of cell 2 R 1. Costal cell ending on the anterior margin of the wing.